The recent “Textile Trends” exhibit, in Melbourne, FL included some very interesting pieces. This “oddball” dress was made with staples. I think it’s wacky and wonderful! It’s called A Woman Prerogative (signage spelling,) by Lydia Friedland. Just check out this detail shot! I loved the hand stitching on this small piece. It’s called Wabi Sabi Red, by Grace…
“Textile Trends,” and exhibit in Melbourne, FL is winding down in the next few days. (The last day is the 27th.) It was the first time Fifth Avenue Art Gallery has had an all-textile call for art, and the resulting show was pretty impressive. This large weaving was made by Lois Mittleman. She found LOTS…
After trying several temporary background colors, I decided to make one side white and one side red. I started with a new temporary background. The purpose of this is so I don’t have to compose against my pure white design wall. It helps me visualize. This was first stab at a new composition. I could…
I was excited to work with the red and blue-green fabric I had recently died. I pulled out all my other dyed fabrics in those colors and began to explore my options. This was the starting fabric. As you can see above, it was missing a chunk on the bottom right corner. So I evened…
Lately, I’ve been trying to dye fabrics to a larger scale. I feel like I succeeded with the one on the right. I screened red on through some construction fencing, and then added some blue-green squares. It should be very usable. I like the large red circles on the left one, but the design reads…
These were the fabrics I selected as I started on an abstract quilt with NO plan. Although I didn’t have a plan, I did have a goal. I wanted to use the last of my favorite fabric, the navy and yellow grid, and to let it be the star of the show. BTW, can you…
I was running low on a favorite hand dyed fabric when I decided to make a quilt with it. It’s the navy and yellow grid shown below, indicated by the largest arrow. I pulled every other hand dyed fabric that would go with it and this is the selection, shown above. Smaller arrows indicated two…
Remember that ugly exercise that I’ve been considering? This is the portion of my ugly painted which I selected as my inspiration for a small quilt. I played around with the individual elements in the computer and, at one point, accidentally colored the background red. Which I liked! So, I started pulling fabrics and got…
I love to teach about art quilting and I consider my niche market to be traditional quilters who want some guidance as they move into art quilting. When I mentioned this on The Quilt Show, Alex Anderson was intrigued and we talked more about it on an episode of her podcast. Video link. (A thirty…
After making Potager Garden, I had quite a few scraps left over, so I decided to use them to make a small quilt. This is what I had to work with. I began to move them around to see how they might fit together. I didn’t like this first version, though. I thought it needed more yellow,…